Vanucci, Marco
Vanucci, Marco
Bio Sketch
Marco Vanucci is an Italian-born architect and founder and Design Director of OPENSYSTEMS Architecture (London, founded 2012), a studio conceiving "every project as a systemic integration of all aspects within an open-ended, vital designed form." He studied architecture in Italy and the UK, graduating from the Architectural Association in 2004; after graduation he worked at Zaha Hadid Architects (design team of the London Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics and the Chanel Pavilion) and at AKT II as a member of the Parametric Applied Research Team (pART) — the envelope/material-systems research background his Reader chapter theorizes. He has been a Unit Master at the AA School's Diploma Unit 3, and his work — spanning residential, factory, retail, hospitality, public art and product design — has been published, exhibited and awarded internationally. His contribution to The Interior Architecture Reader is the envelope register of its disciplinary cluster: interior architecture "rediscovered through the articulation of performative envelopes."
Key Works
- *"Inside-out and outside-in: The envelope and the search for a heterogeneous interiority"* (2018) — Ch. 32 of The Interior Architecture Reader (ed. Gregory Marinic): the envelope as "the diaphragm that articulates form and affects program" and "the main agent for the articulation of its architectural interiority"; heterogeneous interiority through hyperarticulation.
- OPENSYSTEMS Architecture projects Nexo (flexible kiosk, Chicago), Laminae (differentiated performative envelope), Diatomics (cellular partition/structure) — the chapter's built evidence.
Key Concepts
Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:
- performative-envelope — the chapter's central concept: the envelope as interiority's active agent
- heterogeneous-space — the spatial product of hyperarticulation; "difference in kind and in degree," experienced through intensive qualities
- homogeneous-space — the static condition the differentiated envelope supersedes (modern and postmodern interiors)
- boundaries — the envelope as "the boundary of an architectural interiority" and the private/public demarcation
- interiority — interiority as envelope-articulated rather than sheltered
- inside-outside-dialectic — the separation the envelope "embodies" (inside/outside, natural/artificial), renegotiated by the performative skin
- form-vs-program — the dichotomy the envelope bypasses
- architectural-performance — performance as what regenerates function ("able to reinvent function")
- junkspace — the generic interior that made the envelope central
- mass-customization — "continuous variations of building components" as hyperarticulation's fabrication substrate
- enclosure — the envelope's primitive function (shelter from the hostile exterior)
- flexible-interior — the 1960s flexibility demand and the programming paradox (Sarkis)
- orthographic-projection — plan and section as vehicles of political organization
- form-finding — the Frei Otto lineage connecting performance, differentiation, and heterogeneous spaces
- interior-architecture — the discipline rediscovered through the envelope
Relevance to the Core Research
Vanucci supplies the wiki's technological cluster with its missing instrument. The Reader's other computational chapters define spatial paradigms (Carraher's heterogeneous space, Odom's productions, Anderson & Lovell-Anderson's autogenic volumes) — Vanucci names the element that produces them: the envelope. For the Researcher's production-oriented-practice interests, his chapter is the bridge between effects-oriented theory (performance as production) and material-systems practice (performance as fabrication): the hyperarticulated envelope is a production whose output is interiority itself. His chapter also extends the wiki's boundary/inside-outside cluster with its most literal membrane: the envelope as "the field of negotiation between interior spatiality and exterior appearance."
Source Support
Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:
